Zen Story #5: Buddhism & Christianity A university student while visiting the Zen patriarch Gasan asked…
Author: Verisimilitude
Pagan by Nature
I am pagan; and my daughter is pagan from conception. pagan: people of the countryside, deriving…
Cyprianic Plague in 251 CE Fuels Rapid Growth of Christianity
Some here suggest there is “nothing good at all” about Christianity. And, during the Cyprianic plague…
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless” Ecclesiastes 1:2 NIV
…and I had Ecclesiastes 1:2 memorized as:”Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity”…
They Took Part In Apache Ceremonies. Their Schools Expelled Them For Satanic Activities
Question Is it appropriate to expel schoolchildren for taking part in the tradition of their spiritual…
Alone, on a Blue Planet Earth
I sense things exist outside of what I think of as ‘me’ Sights, smells, sounds, tastes,…
Is Free Will Really Free?
How truly ‘free’ is our free Will? Is it truly free? Questions Does the blood circulate…
The human condition: In a nutshell
In his painting La Condition Humaine, the Belgian surrealist René Magritte observes that what we see…
Big Bang theory cancelled? The universe may always have existed…
The Big Bang Theory may be about to face its biggest challenge yet. As Dr. Katy…
Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of the Law
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law–Aleister Crowley Realism in place of…
The Skinny: Religious Decline in U.S. Accelerates
U.S. Decline in Organized Religions Accelerates Unaffiliated now double the size of any particular sect. White…
The Eden Fable: Men’s Fear of the Power of Woman’s Womb…and Women’s Sexuality
The Garden of Eden fable is about: 1. The dawning of human self-aware consciousness… 2. …with…